Yesterday I blogged about the BBC's new project a history of human civilization through 100 objects. And how one of the attractive aspects of the project was that anyone can contribute their own object. Since then I've been asking myself, "What object defines our culture and our time in history?" I don't think there's any question that the "object" that defines our time in history is the human female body. Photographic and video images of nude women dominate the internet, are used to sell every possible kind of product, and serve as a measuring stick by which young girls determine their own self worth. The female body is the idol of our time. It has become so objectified that it's changed the very nature of sex, which is no longer the shared experienced that God designed it to be, but now an action upon to be taken upon an object (i.e., masturbation, pornography, rape).
My contribution to the history through objects project: the female body. What would you choose?
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